Sentences with phrase «biggest ebook selling»

Smashwords.com says «The first few days after Christmas mark the biggest ebook selling days of the year as millions of readers around the world unwrap their new e-reading devices and smart phones start loading them with new ebooks to read.

Not exact matches

When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.

This has resulted in all publishers except the biggest being forced to put two prices on their ebooks: a» digital consumer retail» price (intended to be a selling price, for Apple, and lower) as well as a «list» price (intended for the retailer to discount, for Amazon, and higher).

If you want a slightly more manageable reading list, go with Joanna Penn's How to Market a Book or David Gaughran's Let's Get Visible for a clear and comprehensive big - picture look at strategies, plus Martin Crossbie's tactics - heavy How I Sold 30,000 eBooks on Amazon's Kindle.

This will allow Adobe to clip the ticket on a big chunk of the ebooks sold if it gets the kind of support it's hoping for among ereader hardware manufacturers (Sony has already announced Digital Editions support for a future Sony Reader), e-bookstores, publishers etc..

The big selling point is that they have libraries adopt their entire digital catalog free and libraries only pay a fee when users borrow an audiobook, eBook or graphic novel.

Our technology is used worldwide by 2 of the Big 5 publishers, some very large independent D2C publishers, several hundreds of medium sized publishers selling D2C, quite a few independent eBook web shops and also numerous web shops of smaller publishers, self publishing authors and systems integration.

Sony and Kobo are in big trouble with their current business model of selling hardware and ebooks.

Many big box retailers such as Best Buy and Walmart are continuing to sell Sony eBook Gift Cards, even though Sony closed their online store two years ago.

The Bluefire Reader is one of the best independent ebook reading apps for the iPad, with its biggest selling point being that it uses the Adobe Digital Editions DRM platform.

I've heard figures from big publishers stating that many new releases sell more ebooks than print books.

Face it: with more than 4,000 new ebooks published daily, the chance that your novel will sell big is slim.

Independent authors and Amazon - imprint authors sell more eBooks per day than the traditional publishers combined which is the uncomfortable truth that most industry observers, and those in the Big Five publishers, find it hard to swallow.

Do you really need to sell ebooks locally, be a next big - small guy?

The two biggest and most well known booksellers in the UK are so inept at selling ebooks that they must surely be helping to hasten the demise of ePub and the supremacy of Amazon and the Kindle ecosystem.

As you'll hear in the interview, Harry saw how his Fiona Griffiths crime fiction series was being marketed and sold in the United States and suggested a change to the ebook royalties from his big 5 publisher.

I can tell from first experience, even after selling 1600 copies in a month the earning doesn't constitute a «living», especially because readers hardly buy an ebook priced over $ 3.99 unless you are one of the big names.

Text - to - speech used to be a pretty big feature for Kindles, but Amazon doesn't seem to be interested in evolving it much further anymore — now they'd rather push selling audiobooks instead and promote their Whispersync for Voice feature that syncs audiobooks and ebooks together in the same app.

I'll be arranging with Third Place to sell print copies on consignment, and meanwhile, the ebook editions will go up on the various big ebook - selling sites as soon as I familiarize myself with all the appropriate systems and procedures.

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The biggest «publisher» of self - published material by far is Amazon KDP, and, as noted above, it doesn't require or issue ISBNs for the ebooks it sells.

We're not selling our ebooks to libraries right now, particularly if we are being published by the big houses.

Their big bet is with new projects, such as selling eBooks directly to customers and launching their own dedicated e-Reader app for Android.

Whether you are for or against selling eBooks in the library there is one big factor to consider.

In a November report, it claimed the big five account for 31 % of all ebooks sold on Amazon.co.uk, while self - published authors have reached 26 %.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

One suggestion is for temporary locations to sell ebooks and a limited selection of print books to holiday shoppers who are weary of waiting for friends or family members in the holiday rush, although audiobooks and noise - cancelling headphones to block out the endless loops or recorded Christmas carols might prove to be an even bigger sell.

On the other hand, the Big - 3 eBook platforms do a good job selling books, and we have seen results from them with our digital prose line.

One of the big facets that has a ton of interest in the publishing sector is selling Kindle compatible ebooks from its own independent website.

It would only take one of the big six publishers selling the ebooks through their own website to change the landscape of the industry.

Back in April Simon & Schuster announced that it will donate a free electronic copy of Academy Award — winning producer Brian Grazer's new book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, to school and public libraries for every ebook or hardcover book sold at retail, up to 5,000 copies.

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

The UI and all of the menus have been heavily optimized and the big selling point is being able to buy ebooks right on the device.

It should come as very little surprise to you that after jacking up the prices of their ebooks at the start of 2015, the Big 5 sold fewer ebooks.

While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think as long as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan as a primary sales reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000 copies in back - of - the - room sales or as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100 copies sold.

For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such as a commentary on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your book metadata for sales, how to sell your book to indie bookstores, ebooks vs. print books, and how much it costs to self - publish.

In those days selling a few hundred ebooks a year was a Big Deal.

The biggest - selling ebook format, before Kindle, put content on the Palm Pilot and the total ebook market was so far beneath a rounding error that any investment by a publisher in digitization was being made on faith, not on commercial evidence.

The biggest selling ebook on the Kindle this year is the erotic novel by EL James, «Fifty Shades Of Grey», which sold more than 2 million copies in just four months.

There are so many authors, even the big names, who are only selling their ebooks on Amazon or BN.

Their ebook prices have to go up because Macmillan's overheads (like those of any big, mainstream publisher) are high and fixed, and the bills have to be paid regardless of whether Macmillan is selling ebooks or hard copies.

Well as for how big the market is — I don't have any hard and fast numbers for you but Amazon sold more ebooks than paper books this year, and Smashwords (an ebook distributor) publishes over 70,000 ebooks and counting.

With the rise of online book selling and of ebooks, large, traditional publishing houses and big chain bookstores have been struggling to survive.

She's the Amazon superstar who got rejected by all the big publishers, threw her ebooks into Kindle with no marketing whatsoever, sold millions and ended up with a multi-million contract with Simon & Schuster.

Personally, as something who spends about $ 4,000 a year on books (please don't rat me out to my wife...) I prefer the ebook format and I've taken big fat history tomes, sold them as used books, and bought the ebook version so I can read without breaking my wrists.

Amazon isn't the only place to sell your ebooks, and I've had some luck with Apple and Kobo of late, but it remains the big dog in the house.»

The rise in ebooks seems to favor books that are easily categorized into one of Amazon's shopping buckets and the biggest recommendation for selling books is to write them more quickly.

Your ebooks are being sold through the big eretail booksellers — Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, etc..

BookBaby — They makes it easy to format and sell your eBook in 170 countries through many of the world's biggest retailers, including Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and more.

One thing Chris and I agreed on was that every big six publishing company had different terms on selling their ebooks to the libraries.